Posted on 06/17/2010 12:29:31 PM PDT by kbennkc
Talk about winning the jackpot!
The feds awarded a staggering $54 million to Connecticut's politically-connected Mohegan Indian tribe, which runs one of the highest grossing casinos in the country, according to a new bombshell report.
The tribe, which operates the popular Mohegan Sun casino, earned more than $1.3 billion in gross revenues in 2009.
But that didn't stop Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) of helping the tribe secure the funds, according to ABC News.
The stimulus money -- a loan from a Department of Agriculture rural development program -- is meant to help communities of less than 20,000 people that have been "unable to obtain other credit at reasonable rates and terms and are unable to finance the proposed project from their own resources."
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mohegan_sun_casino_received_in_stimulus_RwulO6UDSkO3lPO0QRIVoJ#ixzz0r8lNKNSA
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The list, ping
$54M will buy a lot of crab leg and prime rib buffets. Lord knows they aren’t paying it out in winnings.
Good Grief!!
$54M will buy a lot of politicians, too.
Get a rope.
Do the Native Americans living on these reservations pay federal income taxes?
I have news for some of you. this is all part of the massive reparations scam they have going, even doling out millions and millions to black farmers who were promised money and land 200 years ago.
The media will hide the fact that it is reparations but we all know the truth. I’m so sick of it all. Anyone else here Obamanightmares? I really can’t sleep sometimes thinking of what he and his ilk are doing to America.
This “reservation” consists of a gas station/truck stop and one of the most beautiful casinos in the world. I do not think the entire reservation is more than 2000 acres.
I can see where they would have problems getting credit. Our system is permeated by corruption.
The “Mohegans” do not have a reservation, and hardly existed at all. They were building that casino when I left Norwich/CT in ‘96, and prior there was no talk of any “tribe” or “Mohegans”, just the history there.
I suspect it was the same with the “Pequot” who were supposedly virtually wiped out by Mohegans/whites in the 17th century. Suddenly all these black and white people show up claiming they’re “Pequot” and create Foxwoods 15 min away. That is their reservation.
http://www.epa.gov/ne/govt/tribes/mohegannation.html
The Mohegan Reservation was created in 1994. It now consists of 504 TOTAL acres.
Oh that’s what the ‘shout out’ was about the day of the Fort Hood terror attack...
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